Obesity, or, Excessive corpulence

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Excerpt from Obesity, or Excessive Corpulence: The Various Causes and the Rational Means of Cure The physician has a twofold duty to perform.

He is called upon not merely to alleviate pain, and to undertake the cure of disease, but he is moreover, required to lay down rules for the preservation of health, the prevention of dis ease, and its too frequent concomitant, pain.3/5(1).

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Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg. Obesity, or Excessive Corpulence: The Various Causes and the Rational Means of. Obesity, or, Excessive corpulence [microform]: the various causes and the rational means of cure Item PreviewPages: The Symptoms of Obesity, or Corpulence Excessive fatness: excessive sebaceous and perspiratory secretion; shortness of breath, and often palpitation of the heart upon making slight exertion.

The characteristics of this disease are so well known that it is unnecessary to go into an elaborate description of the condition of the system in corpulency. Obesity is the accumulation of an excessive amount of fat in the body.

Causes. Its most usual cause is over-eating, although some obese people eat very little. In most cases there is a hereditary tendency to corpulency, which readily develops when the diet and habits favor it. Full text of "Obesity, or, Excessive corpulence [microform]: the various causes and the rational means of cure" See other formats.

Obesity has been documented by scientists over the ages and depicted and glorified in artwork spanning thousands of years. Although in some cultures corpulence was celebrated as a sign of prosperity, even ancient scientists such as Hippocrates recognized the detrimental consequences of obesity to health.

Prevalence of adult overweight and obesity. Individual corpulence measurement is an essential biometric parameter. It is appropriate to distinguish between the overall indices that, for each gender, are only a function of body weight (W), height (H) and possibly age, from the combinations of more specific anthropometric measurements (skinfolds, circumferences.

Besides the nosological inconsistence with the definition of obesity as excess body fat, a body weight based universal criterion lacks in sensitivity, for example, to the gender and ethnic related differences in relative body by: 1.

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Imprint on cover: Toronto, Copp, Clark & Co., In original purple paper covers. Excessive body fat is a result of a high caloric intake and low activity level so the body is not burning off extra calories. Body fat is estimated through the calculation of body mass index (BMI).

The BMI rates obesity at three different levels. A BMI of – is obese. Severely or morbidly obese is a BMI of or higher. Second volume in my quest to read all the books in Pushkin Press & London Library "Found on the shelves" series.

This time, the year isand William Banting fights obesity with the advice of various doctors: he goes to Turkish baths, cleans his ears, and starts shampooing his hair, but, strangely enough, nothing helps until he changes his diet/5. Obesity, also called corpulence or fatness, excessive accumulation of body fat, usually caused by the consumption of more calories than the body can use.

The excess calories are then stored as fat, or adipose tissue. Overweight, if moderate, is not necessarily obesity, particularly in muscular or large-boned individuals.

Dancel was a physician and former military surgeon who publicly presented his ideas on obesity in to the French Academy of Sciences and then published a popular treatise, Obesity, or Excessive Corpulence, The Various Causes and the Rational Means of Cure/5().

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Additional Physical Format: Print version: Dancel, F. (François), Obesity, or, Excessive corpulence. Toronto: W.C. Chewett, (OCoLC) corpulence and subsequent obesity was not through neglect of necessary bodily activity, nor from excessive eating, drinking, or self-indulgence of any kind, except that I partook of the simple aliments of bread, milk, butter, beer, sugar, and potatoes more freely than my aged nature required, and hence, asFile Size: KB.

His recommended reducing diet, not surprisingly, was “more or less rigid abstinence from everything that is starchy or floury.”Dancel was a physician and former military surgeon who publicly presented his ideas on obesity in to the French Academy of Sciences and then published a popular treatise, Obesity, or Excessive Corpulence, The Various /5(96).Hippocrates wrote that "Corpulence is not only a disease itself, but the harbinger of others".

The Indian surgeon Sushruta (6th century BCE) related obesity to diabetes and heart disorders. He recommended physical work to help cure it and its side effects. For most of human history mankind struggled with food stic method: BMI > 30 kg/m².George A.

Bray, in his scholarly book, The Battle of the Bulge (), has explored the history of obesity research and reprinted original papers by Davenport (pp.

ff) (), as well as by.